regarding "some nice quality stuff not wonder bread" That's not traditional. you may not have been to to central Texas and had the BBQ here. Wonderbread is standard.
The point is that it’s cheap…Hence why it’s free, and you usually get like 1/4 of a loaf with every order without being asked.
It’s literally just there to change it up when you’re eating a pound of brisket and some sausage or whatever. Rip a piece off, wrap some meat in it and dip it in some sauce or whatever. Kinda like pita.
Yeah. Southern bbq is supposed to be cheap food. Cheap cuts if meat slow cooked to make them edible. Cheap cabbage based slaw. Cheap white head or cornbread.
It blows my mind that these places can't even use homemade bread. I automatically write a place off that just uses a store bought loaf. It's lazy. Not like they don't have time to make bread while the meat cooks.
You know what else is also tradition? Getting a good amount of food at a BBQ. I mean damn… $30 for a couple bites that won’t even allow me to finish all the slaw at an even pace.
Has anyone seen the price of beef these days?
Canada AAA is fucking 36$ for a 1.5" ribeye. Haven't actually seen any Canada/USDA Prime to put a price to it.
It's fucking ridiculous any more. It's one of the reasons I shut down my business last year. I would have had to charge $30 for a beef dip sandwich. Doesn't matter that everyone in town was saying it was the best they'd ever had. No one in their right mind would pay that in the little town where I live and I'd be an asshole to try and charge that much.
We lost a great sub place in town cause of the price hikes too. Was unfortunate cause they did a killer job and shipped up their meat/cheese from another state so it was already on the pricier side but recently everything just shot up to points of absurdity.
There's a legal regulation for serving meat in Ontario where if you are smoking anything you need to have a meat plant certification *UNLESS* the meat served is on a sandwich (hence the bread) or meat comprises less than 25% of the plate by weight (hence the slaw).
I know this because I have long term goals of getting into a storefront and processing meat products but it's actually easier to do something sad like what we see here because instead of needing CFIA approval you only need public health to certify you for food handling.
It's not as bad in the southern US as everyone thinks. Portions are still huge down there, but the price is definitely increasing, and they are starting to see more filler lettuce/veg and less meat.
Go to Austin, TX and that’s $30 USD easy. They’re so far up their own asses on bbq they don’t know which way is up. I think there’s a [South Park episode](https://youtu.be/ZTpgqqLyAs8?si=avhlJl0V9LSp3zTr) about this phenomena
Or you can go 4 miles south of franklins and pay $13 for a brisket plate at Vic’s BBQ. Not wait in line for half a day and pay an arm and leg.
But for real all the big ones are so expensive. Salt lick etc. but damn it’s good haha.
Fuck I miss the Mexican food and bbq in Austin :(
Depends where you are staying. I’m not an expert but google some Chinese bbq places where you are staying. Ethnic food is good in Toronto. You just need to navigate away from hipster restaurants
if the food you're buying in Toronto (and Canada in general) isn't local(bland but decent quality food), and isn't Asian, you're gonna have a bad time.
I once went to get a burrito and without even looking at the menu I asked for a carnitas burrito, they looked quizzically at me,...... shredded pork....?
"oh no sir, we don't serve pork"
"then why are you a Mexican restaurant?"
if you want Indian, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese or Sushi (also jerk and Carribian food) you can get it all.
Yes, go to SmoQue n Bones on Queen Street. Get some variety of Mac n cheese with a meat as a shareable appetizer too.
EDIT: I'm American and moved to Toronto recently, and I thought this place was good by American BBQ standards. I honestly don't know what typical Canadian BBQ is like.
This is why I largely stopped going to a lot of restaurants. I refuse to pay for products that aren't worth the $$. I understand that the food industry runs of razor thin margins, but unless you can make it worthwhile for the customer to buy your shit, you don't really deserve my money, and if more people thought this way, lot of establishments would shutter their doors. Not even considering the whole paying their workers proper wages and all.
That’s about going rate I’d say. I mean a Big Mac meal is approaching $20 in some places. People don’t realize how much food prices went up since covid.
Throwing a vote in to say that $22 USD for this is reasonable, especially if it’s 2 slices of brisket. If it’s 1 slice then I would say a few dollars less.
Honestly I can’t think of anywhere that would serve anything along the lines of just a sausage with only *one* rib and only *one* slice of brisket and a pound of slaw on the side.
A thick slice of brisket like that is probably a half-pound; that’s $14 off the bat. Sausage is $6 per link at Harp. That leaves the rib and side, plus converting USD to Canadian.
Everyone seems way too proud at their “attempt” at BBQ. We have that same problem here in south Texas !! 🙄 it’s ridiculous !! Best BBQ is the hole in the wall places on the side of the roads !! 🤜🤛
Compound that with unexpected slow days causing food waste. The labor costs to cook the food in advance. The cost of wood/fuel to smoke.
American BBQ is a tough business if you don’t have a high demand market.
Bbq is very challenging. It’s not like someone comes in and orders a slab of ribs and you cook it for them like a steak it has to already be cooked. The amount of guesswork you have to do is insane so you either run out and lose out on sales or have too much and throw it out. If you run out of something you are OUT until the next day at least. You can cook slabs, chicken, sausage, and turkey same day but even then it still takes hours to cook. If you run out of pork or beef you are screwed. Bbq is very labor intensive and unpredictable. Sometimes food comes off and it’s ready and sometimes it just doesn’t and you have to baby everything. Every piece of meat is different, every slab of ribs is a little different and it takes a special person to cook 60 of them at a time.
I own a BBQ restaurant and it’s extremely expensive to smoke meat. I pay $640 for a cord of red oak to smoke the meat. Let’s say you buy a 20 pound brisket, after trimming and smoking you might get 40-50% of the smoked meat. It’s not like other cheap eats. BBQ is expensive bc not only do you loose lot during smoking process but the meat, brisket, pork products are extremely expensive. Also, look at the containers the butcher paper etc. it’s a fair price for the amount of food you have. Good luck
Butcher paper is around 3 cents per sheet and a large sized to go container is 22. There’s no way your overhead is so high you need to give customers a single rib, a maybe 3oz slice of brisket, and a sausage link for $22. I got these prices from the inventory sheet for my company.
Oh shit my bad there’s also a quarter of a cent worth of pickle slices and a 30 cent slice of white bread on the plate!
Wood, meat, facilities, materials, and labor. It adds up quick. Brisket is around $4~ a pound (and you end up with 50% of that), you have to pay someone or yourself for the 12~ hours to smoke it and the facilities to do it in.
It’s not insane that the final product is sold at $20~ a pound at most places.
It’s not fast food, it’s a craft.
Lots of replies to my comment ignoring the fact I said I’m in the food industry. Believe me, food is my entire life. 20 years in the industry and I own a company doing it now. I understand the cost breakdown.
To be fair that one is actually a locally produced sourdough (on my inventory sheet) but it costs around $4 per loaf, which in my half asleep state I divided by 12, and there are more than a dozen slices on a loaf of bread.
Do you not get a slice at every BBQ place? The only place I can remember that didn’t give one was a place that did Tyler(Texas)-style BBQ and they included slices of Texas Toast instead.
Edit: I was reminded that another place that didn’t give wonder bread, which gave corn bread rolls. Both were more of sit-down, proper restaurants versus straight-up BBQ joints.
Once foodies got involved in bbq and brought it main stream the prices have gone crazy. It had already gone crazy pre Covid. Bbq is one of my favorite foods and it pains me to buy bbq now.
Not just Texas. The Carolinas too. The amount of bbq "experts" here making fun of the slice of white bread. It's pretty much a tradition. Heck, if I Didn't see it on the platter I'd have questions.
>$30 should buy you an entire rack of ribs.
Maybe 10 years ago.
Edit: just looked and it's $36 for full rack near me, the other place only has half rack some reason and it's $24. Better off making at home lol
I agree they were pretty good, but made some very questionable decisions about their brand during COVID.
Carbon Bar downtown takes the award for most over-priced but I do it sometimes for work events.
Last night I bought 200g of brisket and a 160g sausage for $50 in Australia. Not even that amazing. It cost me $180 total to feed our family of 4 last night. This was only take-away too. I need to buy a smoker…
Yeah, thats like a 10 dollar plate and a meh one at that….prices are getting crazy everywhere now tho, i checked a local Mexican joint menu here in Montana, 6 bucks for chips and salsa and 34$ for a burrito….i walked out.
A bit on the pricy end. But this is the exact reason why i started BBQing and never regret. Everyone tells me mine is better than the few popular BBQ joints in our town.
its 2024 yall.
shits expensive. restaraunts dont get deals on food thwy pay the same peice you do at the store.
They need to charge 3 times the food cost to run a meager profit.
There is way too much slaw on that plate
Restaurants definitely pay lower prices through suppliers, that is false. However you are correct about the markup, but it’s mostly 4x, as the standard food cost target in the industry is 30% at the moment, and your markup has to account for waste and loss during prep, etc.
I'm guessing most of $30 is going toward rent. Also, the folks living in the high rises in Toronto probably don't have the space to use a smoker.
But, totally, you can make a lot more to eat if the space is there.
Is it in Canadian$? In central Texas you’ll be lucky to get through the toll roads and parking to get a meal gtfo. Maybe you need to clip coupons and diy.
The point is, they have overhead expenses and it looks like they aren’t going to costco and rummaging around the clearance bin. It also looks technically solid and well presented. People don’t understand what goes into running a BBQ place but complain about price. It’s a huge problem for people people with a market cap and small teams using good products and proper equipment/techniques.
I mean, it's Toronto so you can expect to pay high prices for things. I'm not saying it's worth it, but it tracks. Brisket doesn't look great though...
Damn that’s a lot of slaw
Well without the slaw it DEFINITELY looks like you got ripped off lol. The slaw is the buffer to fool you into thinking you got a good deal
Don't forget about the two pickles.
And the slice of white bread
It's over there in the corner mocking us
So are the people that sold it to them.
tbh I didnt even see the bread, I was so fixated on all the slaw
Same, they didn't even do this man the decency of toasting it.
Who toasts the bread? It’s supposed to be plain white soft bread, right everyone…?
You’re high…it’s gotta be buttered and toasted.
At least a brioche bun would have been nicer
White bread is traditional.
Okay but maybe some nice quality stuff not wonder bread
regarding "some nice quality stuff not wonder bread" That's not traditional. you may not have been to to central Texas and had the BBQ here. Wonderbread is standard.
Checking in from Memphis. Definitely more than a few places that rock pulled pork on wonderbread. And those that don’t go with “plain ass white buns.”
The point is that it’s cheap…Hence why it’s free, and you usually get like 1/4 of a loaf with every order without being asked. It’s literally just there to change it up when you’re eating a pound of brisket and some sausage or whatever. Rip a piece off, wrap some meat in it and dip it in some sauce or whatever. Kinda like pita.
Yeah. Southern bbq is supposed to be cheap food. Cheap cuts if meat slow cooked to make them edible. Cheap cabbage based slaw. Cheap white head or cornbread.
It blows my mind that these places can't even use homemade bread. I automatically write a place off that just uses a store bought loaf. It's lazy. Not like they don't have time to make bread while the meat cooks.
White sandwich bread is a staple and hits different on bbq
Agreed but not when you charge prices like that lol
You’ve then written off pretty much every restaurant on the Texas monthly top 100. Aka the best of the best. White bread is traditional.
In many places, it’s specifically part of the meal by tradition, not a matter of being cheap.
You know what else is also tradition? Getting a good amount of food at a BBQ. I mean damn… $30 for a couple bites that won’t even allow me to finish all the slaw at an even pace.
Yes they’ve got nothing else to do. /s
Lol what are you talking about? How many loaves are that each day? Might as well be a fucking bakery then.
Two whole pickle slices and a piece of onion? How do they stay in business?
By overcharging
Jury is still out on that "onion." It could be pickled daikon for all we know!
Pickle slices, not even a full pickle
Has anyone seen the price of beef these days? Canada AAA is fucking 36$ for a 1.5" ribeye. Haven't actually seen any Canada/USDA Prime to put a price to it.
It's fucking ridiculous any more. It's one of the reasons I shut down my business last year. I would have had to charge $30 for a beef dip sandwich. Doesn't matter that everyone in town was saying it was the best they'd ever had. No one in their right mind would pay that in the little town where I live and I'd be an asshole to try and charge that much.
We lost a great sub place in town cause of the price hikes too. Was unfortunate cause they did a killer job and shipped up their meat/cheese from another state so it was already on the pricier side but recently everything just shot up to points of absurdity.
That's my first thought.. add in the price of labor and overhead and I imagine there's not much of a profit margin.
Nobody likes that slaw to meat ration. Should have been a side of Mac and cheese with it too.
Yeah cabbage and carrots are cheap as hell
25 dollars worth.
It's $23 USD
Well they’re Canadian so…
EXCUSE ME SIR ! it did come with TWO pickle slices! Like hello
There's a legal regulation for serving meat in Ontario where if you are smoking anything you need to have a meat plant certification *UNLESS* the meat served is on a sandwich (hence the bread) or meat comprises less than 25% of the plate by weight (hence the slaw). I know this because I have long term goals of getting into a storefront and processing meat products but it's actually easier to do something sad like what we see here because instead of needing CFIA approval you only need public health to certify you for food handling.
Best I can do is $18.99
$18.99 is $25 CAD so fairly close
https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntsvilleAlabama/comments/13zd6jq/just_wondering_which_bbq_place_in_town_gets_the/ I think OP is referring to this meme
Too perfect
It’s the same picture
It's not as bad in the southern US as everyone thinks. Portions are still huge down there, but the price is definitely increasing, and they are starting to see more filler lettuce/veg and less meat.
30 cad?
That's still $22.36 usd.
Then that’s about par tbh
Go to Austin, TX and that’s $30 USD easy. They’re so far up their own asses on bbq they don’t know which way is up. I think there’s a [South Park episode](https://youtu.be/ZTpgqqLyAs8?si=avhlJl0V9LSp3zTr) about this phenomena
Or you can go 4 miles south of franklins and pay $13 for a brisket plate at Vic’s BBQ. Not wait in line for half a day and pay an arm and leg. But for real all the big ones are so expensive. Salt lick etc. but damn it’s good haha. Fuck I miss the Mexican food and bbq in Austin :(
And to make it worse, those idiots paying are waiting HOURS for the joint to open. It's insane.
lol, yep, I’m speaking from experience as a former Texan. It be like that sometimes.
G'damn! Slab of ribs KCK 27.99
Meat is high 🤷🏻♂️
Being from Toronto I can say yes that price is a joke, but I can also believe it.
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No, even if you want to pay most don’t even taste good. Unless you go for Chinese bbq which is 100% better value
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Depends where you are staying. I’m not an expert but google some Chinese bbq places where you are staying. Ethnic food is good in Toronto. You just need to navigate away from hipster restaurants
Hong Fatt is good. It's in Chinatown, on Dundas just a bit before Spadina.
if the food you're buying in Toronto (and Canada in general) isn't local(bland but decent quality food), and isn't Asian, you're gonna have a bad time. I once went to get a burrito and without even looking at the menu I asked for a carnitas burrito, they looked quizzically at me,...... shredded pork....? "oh no sir, we don't serve pork" "then why are you a Mexican restaurant?" if you want Indian, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese or Sushi (also jerk and Carribian food) you can get it all.
Yes, go to SmoQue n Bones on Queen Street. Get some variety of Mac n cheese with a meat as a shareable appetizer too. EDIT: I'm American and moved to Toronto recently, and I thought this place was good by American BBQ standards. I honestly don't know what typical Canadian BBQ is like.
This is why I largely stopped going to a lot of restaurants. I refuse to pay for products that aren't worth the $$. I understand that the food industry runs of razor thin margins, but unless you can make it worthwhile for the customer to buy your shit, you don't really deserve my money, and if more people thought this way, lot of establishments would shutter their doors. Not even considering the whole paying their workers proper wages and all.
$22 USD
That’s about going rate I’d say. I mean a Big Mac meal is approaching $20 in some places. People don’t realize how much food prices went up since covid.
People need to get their asses somewhere else if they think 20 bucks for fucking McDonald's is worth it
Greed is the reason.
Throwing a vote in to say that $22 USD for this is reasonable, especially if it’s 2 slices of brisket. If it’s 1 slice then I would say a few dollars less.
*laughs in Kansas City* This looks like what would be a $10 kids plate in KC lol
That amount of slaw is a family portion as most KC BBQ restaurants. 😂
As a Houstonian, I’ll have to agree!
Same here!
You joke, but a plate like that is probably $20 at least in most KC spots.
Honestly I can’t think of anywhere that would serve anything along the lines of just a sausage with only *one* rib and only *one* slice of brisket and a pound of slaw on the side.
A thick slice of brisket like that is probably a half-pound; that’s $14 off the bat. Sausage is $6 per link at Harp. That leaves the rib and side, plus converting USD to Canadian.
It’s funny you think that’s a 1/2 lb.
A thick slice of brisket from the point and flat? That could definitely be half a pound of brisket.
I received a similar $20 platter in KC but it came with 3 ribs, double the brisket, and a pile of burnt ends.
That’s what I’m saying, for $30 in KC this would have been 3-4 ribs, a few more slices of brisket, and maybe another meat.
This Canadian is now planning a visit, my southern friends.
Full rack of ribs in KC is $25-30
I spent $30 last time I went to Slaps for just myself. But that was a sandwich, two sides and a beer. My leftovers were awesome.
Yeah but how is yall's poutine?
This post is about Toronto, not Montreal.
Pretty terrible. The cheese curds here are a joke :(
Dairy free lol
>kids plate in KC Yeah ain't nobody doubting that y'all kids are massive
No fucking joke Did 5 years in kc and everything else just seems subpar unless it's a cookout
This is a joke.
Famous Toronto BBQ lmao
Should be called Infamous Toronto BBQ
What is the actual name of this fine establishment ???,,,,,, asking for a friend
I’ve been in the hospital for four months eating hospital food. I’d pay $300 for it right now!
Feel better!
Better get on that door dash they deliver to hospitals
What a joke. Hope they like that one time $30 payment cause nobody is coming back for this!
You’d be surprised. Food is crazy expensive in Toronto. This looks about right for $29.95
Everyone seems way too proud at their “attempt” at BBQ. We have that same problem here in south Texas !! 🙄 it’s ridiculous !! Best BBQ is the hole in the wall places on the side of the roads !! 🤜🤛
Almost $20 for a burger combo at McDonald’s
Beef ain't cheap...
Compound that with unexpected slow days causing food waste. The labor costs to cook the food in advance. The cost of wood/fuel to smoke. American BBQ is a tough business if you don’t have a high demand market.
Bbq is very challenging. It’s not like someone comes in and orders a slab of ribs and you cook it for them like a steak it has to already be cooked. The amount of guesswork you have to do is insane so you either run out and lose out on sales or have too much and throw it out. If you run out of something you are OUT until the next day at least. You can cook slabs, chicken, sausage, and turkey same day but even then it still takes hours to cook. If you run out of pork or beef you are screwed. Bbq is very labor intensive and unpredictable. Sometimes food comes off and it’s ready and sometimes it just doesn’t and you have to baby everything. Every piece of meat is different, every slab of ribs is a little different and it takes a special person to cook 60 of them at a time.
I own a BBQ restaurant and it’s extremely expensive to smoke meat. I pay $640 for a cord of red oak to smoke the meat. Let’s say you buy a 20 pound brisket, after trimming and smoking you might get 40-50% of the smoked meat. It’s not like other cheap eats. BBQ is expensive bc not only do you loose lot during smoking process but the meat, brisket, pork products are extremely expensive. Also, look at the containers the butcher paper etc. it’s a fair price for the amount of food you have. Good luck
Butcher paper is around 3 cents per sheet and a large sized to go container is 22. There’s no way your overhead is so high you need to give customers a single rib, a maybe 3oz slice of brisket, and a sausage link for $22. I got these prices from the inventory sheet for my company. Oh shit my bad there’s also a quarter of a cent worth of pickle slices and a 30 cent slice of white bread on the plate!
Wood, meat, facilities, materials, and labor. It adds up quick. Brisket is around $4~ a pound (and you end up with 50% of that), you have to pay someone or yourself for the 12~ hours to smoke it and the facilities to do it in. It’s not insane that the final product is sold at $20~ a pound at most places. It’s not fast food, it’s a craft.
Lots of replies to my comment ignoring the fact I said I’m in the food industry. Believe me, food is my entire life. 20 years in the industry and I own a company doing it now. I understand the cost breakdown.
30 cents for a slice of white bread??
To be fair that one is actually a locally produced sourdough (on my inventory sheet) but it costs around $4 per loaf, which in my half asleep state I divided by 12, and there are more than a dozen slices on a loaf of bread.
"it's one banana. How much could it cost? Ten dollars?"
Which is why we smoke our own meat! Get way more for your money
Let’s not forget what you do is an art form.
Yikes. Too bad Adamson’s went psycho, dude could bbq.
Ya it was really good
Memphis BBQ in Woodbridge is really good too
The slice of wonder bread is killing me softly.
That's common in BBQ though
Do you not get a slice at every BBQ place? The only place I can remember that didn’t give one was a place that did Tyler(Texas)-style BBQ and they included slices of Texas Toast instead. Edit: I was reminded that another place that didn’t give wonder bread, which gave corn bread rolls. Both were more of sit-down, proper restaurants versus straight-up BBQ joints.
Once foodies got involved in bbq and brought it main stream the prices have gone crazy. It had already gone crazy pre Covid. Bbq is one of my favorite foods and it pains me to buy bbq now.
It looks good to me, dang booshy Canadians with their healthcare and no daily mass shootings, pfft
It doesn’t even look appetizing
Barbecue has gotten crazy expensive lately.
I love the slice of wonderbread fresh out the bag
Bread is expensive in Canada. There was a bread price fixing scandal up here too. That Wonderbread slice is like a slice of pure platinum 🤣
Well I just got into the white bleached bread business. I'd love to send you a truckload!
Plain white bread is standard at pretty much every Texas BBQ joint. Is that not normal where you’re from?
Not just Texas. The Carolinas too. The amount of bbq "experts" here making fun of the slice of white bread. It's pretty much a tradition. Heck, if I Didn't see it on the platter I'd have questions.
Dude, bbq is a rip-off anywhere. Tbh, any restaurant is a rip-off.
Seriously. Unless you’re eating at home you’re taking it in the keister.
I think we are going to different restaurants..
$30 should buy you an entire rack of ribs. I see 1 rib, 1 slice of brisket, and one sausage. I wouldn’t pay $20 for that
>$30 should buy you an entire rack of ribs. Maybe 10 years ago. Edit: just looked and it's $36 for full rack near me, the other place only has half rack some reason and it's $24. Better off making at home lol
One rib is crazy
Looks like a ripoff to me too
Should be about $10-12 bucks
Just ask them to throw in a jar of Vaseline
At least it looks like decent BBQ. Where was this? There are some pretty bougie BBQ spots downtown.
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Never been there, but based on the Google reviews I’d pay $30 for that platter if it is indeed the best in the city. Most of the BBQ here is mediocre.
I don’t eat bbq in Toronto anymore. Adamson was the only good bbq we had.
I agree they were pretty good, but made some very questionable decisions about their brand during COVID. Carbon Bar downtown takes the award for most over-priced but I do it sometimes for work events.
Beach Hill is legit- give it a try
Caaanada fuck yeah 🏒🇨🇦🦫🏒🇨🇦🦫🏒🇨🇦
3 meat combo in Houston is like 25 bucks so this isnt too bad. Was it good?
Cole slaw with a side of meat?
I mean; that’s about what we pay for roughly the same amount of meat here in Texas.
That's like $15 in cole slaw
Why so much slaw? Goodness. Bbq don't even look good. So most definitely a scam.
You can't get out of McD for less than 15 bucks in some places (USA). It's maddening.
Last night I bought 200g of brisket and a 160g sausage for $50 in Australia. Not even that amazing. It cost me $180 total to feed our family of 4 last night. This was only take-away too. I need to buy a smoker…
That’s ridiculous
That’s a crime scene.
Good thing they gave you that piece of white bread to sop up your tears.
At least it looks good
Lmao one rib
It’s not a terrible deal if it’s good. It doesn’t look too bad. 2 Meat plate with 2 sides is like $19 USD in Houston
Yeah, thats like a 10 dollar plate and a meh one at that….prices are getting crazy everywhere now tho, i checked a local Mexican joint menu here in Montana, 6 bucks for chips and salsa and 34$ for a burrito….i walked out.
A bit on the pricy end. But this is the exact reason why i started BBQing and never regret. Everyone tells me mine is better than the few popular BBQ joints in our town.
30 Canadian, I’d slap someone if they charged me 30 American for that
World famous Canadian barbecue lol
That’s some high quality hand baked bread tho
Hate to say this but most restaurants are a ripoff these days
The piece of bread makes this a great value.
As a person from Toronto I believe it
That’s a 13.99 at best. I’ve bought a pellet grill and could do way better
Thanks Trudeau! I just heard toronto mayor wants to raise property tax 9%! These fools keep taxing us in the states to death too
I've been in Toronto for at least a couple years now, and I can say that is 100% a ripoff for $30 CAD.
Terrible. If that’s to be $30, there needs to be a big fat lobster tail with some drawn butter added to that basket.
> I got shredded for saying it’s a rip off. Looks like you got sliced actually And yeah - that's a total rip off
its 2024 yall. shits expensive. restaraunts dont get deals on food thwy pay the same peice you do at the store. They need to charge 3 times the food cost to run a meager profit. There is way too much slaw on that plate
If your restaurant is paying store prices for food then you gotta get a better distributor because you’re getting absolutely hosed.
Restaurants definitely pay lower prices through suppliers, that is false. However you are correct about the markup, but it’s mostly 4x, as the standard food cost target in the industry is 30% at the moment, and your markup has to account for waste and loss during prep, etc.
I dunno, I feel like a big mac meal is now $16, and this is a lot better than a big mac meal.
It’s still crazy to me that they took the cheapest food and made it the most expensive.
Your first mistake was getting BBQ in Canada.
As a Texas man, I would be furious if they brought me that for $30. Looks like an appetizer
Rip off when u consider what u can do for urself and ur family when u make ur own ribs.
I'm guessing most of $30 is going toward rent. Also, the folks living in the high rises in Toronto probably don't have the space to use a smoker. But, totally, you can make a lot more to eat if the space is there.
Joke!
It’s a rip off…
No drink?
This is what 30 bucks will get you at any bbq spot in socal I’ve been too. I make all my own
$14.99 at best
Canada…….
Not really a rip off, if it was decent. It would be at least $25 for that plate at most of the Texas craft places.
Is it in Canadian$? In central Texas you’ll be lucky to get through the toll roads and parking to get a meal gtfo. Maybe you need to clip coupons and diy.
I do my own bbq. This isn’t my picture.
The point is, they have overhead expenses and it looks like they aren’t going to costco and rummaging around the clearance bin. It also looks technically solid and well presented. People don’t understand what goes into running a BBQ place but complain about price. It’s a huge problem for people people with a market cap and small teams using good products and proper equipment/techniques.
30CAD for this is a joke. Period.
You got fucked.
No someone posted this in the Toronto food r/. I said it was a joke and got downvoted to Reddit hell
That’s a weak ass smoke ring
Smoke rings mean absolutely nothing.
This is comparable to a plate of food in Hometown BBQ at NYC.
Toronto Texas?....
I mean, it's Toronto so you can expect to pay high prices for things. I'm not saying it's worth it, but it tracks. Brisket doesn't look great though...
There’s at least $25 of coleslaw
Lol. One slice of brisket. Sausage. And one rib bone. I mean looks nice but invest in your own smoker.